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newt gingrich's ring tone is dancing queen. i think that nobody's going to take a chance on newt gingrich. i could be wrong. can you hear what he is playing? this is dancing queen by abba. i paid for the dancing queen ring tone and i'm keeping it. good-bye, sir. we will miss you until you do it again in four years, if you can figure out how to make money off of it. i live for days like this in politics. easily the best new thing in my world today. best new thing in the world today. everybody's today's news best new thing in the world. best new thing in the world. there's a lot of them. hold on. we'll be right back. not many people want to be outside in unless they have to. only a few people by which i mean a few thousand people bundled up in their rain gear and headed out to grant park in chicago to cheer on veterans of the iraq war and the afghanistan war as the second city staged the second welcome home parade. to say welcome home to the soldiers. go chicago. there were marching bands and motorcycles and war dogs and more tha
newt gingrich's ring tone is dancing queen. i think that nobody's going to take a chance on newt gingrich. i could be wrong. can you hear what he is playing? this is dancing queen by abba. i paid for the dancing queen ring tone and i'm keeping it. good-bye, sir. we will miss you until you do it again in four years, if you can figure out how to make money off of it. i live for days like this in politics. easily the best new thing in my world today. best new thing in the world today. everybody's...
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newt gingrich's ring tone is dancing queen. i think that nobody's going to take a chance on newt gingrich. i could be wrong. can you hear what he is playing? this is dancing queen by abba. i paid for the dancing queen ring tone and i'm keeping it. good-bye, sir. we will miss you until you do it again in four years, if you can figure out how to make money off of it. i live for days like this in politics. easily the best new thing in my world today. best new thing in the world today. everybody's today's news best new thing in the world. best new thing in the world. there's a lot of them. hold on. we'll be right back. [ dylan ] this is one way to keep your underwear clean. this is another! ta-daa! try charmin ultra strong. it cleans so well and you can use up to four times less than the leading value brand. oh! there it is. thanks son. hey! [ female announcer ] charmin ultra strong has a duraclean texture that can help you get clean while still using less. and it's four times stronger versus the leading value brand. charmin ultra
newt gingrich's ring tone is dancing queen. i think that nobody's going to take a chance on newt gingrich. i could be wrong. can you hear what he is playing? this is dancing queen by abba. i paid for the dancing queen ring tone and i'm keeping it. good-bye, sir. we will miss you until you do it again in four years, if you can figure out how to make money off of it. i live for days like this in politics. easily the best new thing in my world today. best new thing in the world today. everybody's...
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they did it with newt gingrich. they did wit dick armey. they did it in the '60s to former speaker joe martin. they did to it charles halleck. that's how gerald ford got to be the republican leader in congress before he ever became president. he got his leadership role thanks to a republican coup. there was a good article which we have linked to on the blog if you want to check it out. the short of it is republicans have a history of attacking their own relationship, overthrowing their own top dogs. but importantly, it is only republicans who do this. democrats do not do this. there is no history of a democratic speaker being overthrown by his or her side. but republicans seem to enjoy it. and tomorrow they will get another chance. house speaker john boehner faces a vote tomorrow in his own caucus as to whether or not he gets to remain speaker. the smart money says that he is going to keep his job, in part because nobody knows who else might want that job right now except for him. but it is never a good sign when you have to respond to repo
they did it with newt gingrich. they did wit dick armey. they did it in the '60s to former speaker joe martin. they did to it charles halleck. that's how gerald ford got to be the republican leader in congress before he ever became president. he got his leadership role thanks to a republican coup. there was a good article which we have linked to on the blog if you want to check it out. the short of it is republicans have a history of attacking their own relationship, overthrowing their own top...
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and not since 1994 in the gingrich landslide when two slipped in have massachusetts elected a republican to federal office of any kind. >> and there is a reason why. and the state is getting more blue, not less blue over time. >> right. >> let me ask you about a broader picture. "the miami herald" reported on an fbi raid on the office of a long-time supporter of new jersey democratic senator bob menendez. the senator is denying any wrongdoing. but is that rattling new jersey politics enough? is there enough noise around senator bob menendez that potentially his seat is worth thinking about on either side? >> there is a lot of concern, yes, among democrats there is a lot of confusion about what exactly has happened here. it's worth pointing out that menendez has sort of been down this road before. it did not involve prostitution or anything sa for his seat, it leaked from the u.s. attorney's office, that would be u.s. attorney chris christie, it leaked that menendez was under federal investigation, and records had been subpoenaed from his nonprofit, supposedly. no charges ever emerged fro
and not since 1994 in the gingrich landslide when two slipped in have massachusetts elected a republican to federal office of any kind. >> and there is a reason why. and the state is getting more blue, not less blue over time. >> right. >> let me ask you about a broader picture. "the miami herald" reported on an fbi raid on the office of a long-time supporter of new jersey democratic senator bob menendez. the senator is denying any wrongdoing. but is that rattling...
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. >> a meeting, a dinner took place in the famous steakhouse in downtown washington with newt gingrich as sort of the emcee, if you will. >> the gathering of gop luminaries, top conservative congressman eric cantor, paul ryan, senate power brokers jim demint, jon kyl, tom coburn, event organizer frank luntz. >> they decided that they needed to begin to fight obama on everything. this meant unyielding opposition to every one of the obama administration's legislative initiatives. they all talked about this and they began to get more and more optimistic and they left feeling practically exuberant. >> count, count them ten official inaugural ball. >> stunning crowd of people. >> the new president had no idea what the republicans were planning. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and first lady. >> surrounded by supporters at the inaugural balls, the mood was hopeful. ♪ at last my love ♪ >> didn't have a full sense of what washington was going to be like for him. he had not been in the middle of these kind of down and dirty fights. the ugly reality of governing i
. >> a meeting, a dinner took place in the famous steakhouse in downtown washington with newt gingrich as sort of the emcee, if you will. >> the gathering of gop luminaries, top conservative congressman eric cantor, paul ryan, senate power brokers jim demint, jon kyl, tom coburn, event organizer frank luntz. >> they decided that they needed to begin to fight obama on everything. this meant unyielding opposition to every one of the obama administration's legislative...
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bill clinton's long-time nemesis from washington, newt gingrich, had a similar reaction to the speech. he said that bill clinton, quote, worked with the gop. obama didn't. barack obama won't work with republicans the way that old bill clinton did. yeah, remember how much republicans loved bill clinton? remember how the clinton era was defined by eight long years of harmonious bipartisanship? >> william jefferson clinton has been impeached by the house of representatives on at least one article. it will go to the united states senate. ♪ kumbahyah those were the constructive bipartisan days of the clinton presidency. even if republicans were not exactly kind and welcoming toward president clinton as president, he did at least make a sort of gesture of bipartisanship in their direction. he had a bipartisan cabinet. he appointed one republican to one job in his cabinet. former republican senator william cohen he appointed to his defense secretary. and president george bush did the same thing, he pointed one democrat, norman mineta was chosen by george w. bush to serve as transportation
bill clinton's long-time nemesis from washington, newt gingrich, had a similar reaction to the speech. he said that bill clinton, quote, worked with the gop. obama didn't. barack obama won't work with republicans the way that old bill clinton did. yeah, remember how much republicans loved bill clinton? remember how the clinton era was defined by eight long years of harmonious bipartisanship? >> william jefferson clinton has been impeached by the house of representatives on at least one...